Bowdoin Science Experience
Bowdoin College
At a time when most incoming Bowdoin students were squeezing out the last week of summer, 18 first-years were hitting campus early. They were part of the Bowdoin Science Experience (BSE), a brand-new program of academic orientation designed to encourage a... » Read More

The Climate Change Institute
University of Maine
The Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine is an interdisciplinary research unit organized to conduct research and graduate education focused on variability of the earth’s climate, ecosystems, and other environmental systems and on the intera... » Read More

Coastal Studies for Girls
Coastal Studies for Girls
Coastal Studies for Girls (CSG) is a new semester-long marine and environmental science school for girls. The school brings girls from around the country to the coast of Maine for the fall or spring term of their sophomore year of high school. Students im... » Read More

A Focus on Pet Health
IDEXX Laboratories
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. develops and commercializes technology-based products and services for veterinary, food and water applications. Headquartered in southern Maine, IDEXX conducts operations through more than 60 locations around the world, and emplo... » Read More

Improving the Quality of Human Life through Research
Jackson Laboratory
The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, is a nonprofit institution with a mission to improve the quality of human life through discoveries arising from our own genetic research and by enabling the research and education of others.

Programs: At Jac... » Read More

Chewonki Maine Coast Semester
Chewonki Foundation
Chewonki Maine Coast Semester is a challenging semester school emphasizing the natural world, hands-on work, sustainability, and community. Students attend traditional classes, but also study field ecology, work on a farm, participate in an outdoor progra... » Read More

Promoting Research and Education in the Biology of Marine Organisms
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL)
The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit, marine research institution founded in 1898. The Laboratory is located in the village of Salisbury Cove, Maine, a small community wrapped around sheltered coves and wooded peninsu... » Read More

Future Teachers' Academy
University of Maine
Enjoy math and science? Thinking about education as a profession?

The University of Maine Future Teachers’ Academy looks for high school students who are enthusiastic about mathematics and science and are interested in teaching.

The free academy ... » Read More